The Goldberg Variations is one of the greatest poems in human history. As towering a creative achievement as anything in Homer or Shakespeare. No other [of the great composers] has ever possessed Bach's ability to make music as much a language as Spanish, English or French: Where other composers break into the silence with sounds sublime or glorious, ethereal, noble, or just loud... Bach almost always engages us in a human conversation as effectively as if he were using words.
And whether in the many interpretations of other keyboard players out there or in that personal one playing only within the confines of my own mind... every time I listen to the transcendent masterpiece that is Bach's Art of The Variation I can't help but thank God for the unequaled privilege.
S D Rodrian